Digital Project Summaries

Submission of digital project summary information

The English Heritage World Wide Web site includes summaries of commissioned projects, to provide background information and updates on work being undertaken and to provide examples of English Heritage's archaeological commissions. In developing the EH web site and to aid dissemination of information about projects, we aim to incorporate information on all archaeological projects funded by Historic Environment Commissions. We are particularly keen to assist organisations that do not have resources to run their own web sites.

Project managers are required to provide project summary information in digital form, upon the commissioning of all new projects. Although the nature of certain projects may require individual treatment, it is envisaged that the material for most project summaries will be derived from the contents and broad structure of the commissioned project design.

English Heritage must respect copyright on material placed on the WWW. Therefore you should not submit material for which you do not hold the copyright, or which you do not want reproduced. This is particularly relevant to location maps that contain Ordinance Survey copyright material. We would welcome geographic images providing that you hold copyright permissions for WWW dissemination.

Text format

Ideally, text will be submitted as Microsoft Word files (saved in Word97 for Windows format). If appropriate, complete versions of project summaries or other project documentation can be submitted as HTML documents or in Portable Document Format (PDF). If none of the above software is available, please supply a copy of the text either in Rich Text Format (.rtf) or as ASCII text (.txt).

Image format

1. Digital: The preferred file formats for images are .JPG (usually best for photographs) and/or .GIF (better for computer generated graphics). Single images should wherever possible be under 30K to minimise the time taken to download them. Clearly there may be cases for higher resolution material. Please contact the address below if you want to discuss alternatives. If you cannot provide digital versions of illustrations then it may be possible to submit hardcopies for digitisation:
   
2. Hardcopy: B/W or Colour prints: Original illustrations should be A4 size or smaller.
   35mm photographic slides: These can be scanned, but submission of digital images, either by email attachment or on 3.5 disk, Zip disk or CD-ROM, is preferred - see a) above.

Before sending any hardcopy materials it is advisable to contact the address below to discuss the nature and the required formatting of the material. Please include a list of all the items sent, specifying which, if any, need to be returned and the address to send them to. Unless specified, it will be assumed that all materials submitted are copies and do not need to be returned.

Submitting digital material

Delivery of the digital material should preferably be by email attachment (if total size exceeds 1mbyte please attach as a compressed Winzip file attachment). If this is not possible then material can be submitted on 3.5 inch "floppy" disk or Iomega Zip disk by post to the address below. Any disks should be scanned for viruses before sending. If you wish to send files by other means (e.g. ftp, CD-ROM) or in other formats please contact the address below.

All submissions and enquiries should initially be made to :

Gareth Watkins
English Heritage

1 Waterhouse Square,

138-142 Holborn

London, EC1N 2ST

Tel: 020 7973 3105
e-mail: gareth.watkins@english-heritage.org.uk